Sunday Sunrise 4.20 - Guilty Pleasures

[Head Mutant]

You know they're not the best movies in the world.

Your friends and family kinda laugh at you or look at you with unmasked pity when you watch them.

There's no logical defense for their merit, but you stick by them anyway.

What are your guilty pleasures when it comes to movies, and how has it been sticking by those?

[Lonestarr]

I'm kind of a private person, so people don't really give me crap about these:

Paparazzi (as far as I'm concerned, guilty pleasures don't come much guiltier)
Judge Dredd
Super Mario Bros.
Love Stinks
On Deadly Ground
Nothing But Trouble (seriously, Dan Aykroyd's performance as the J.P. is incredible)
The Vanishing (the remake)

[TheOogieBoogieMan]

I find myself having to defend my love for Dude, Where's My Car? (<plug>a half-decent review of which can be found here</plug>) quite a bit. Aside from that, I'm a pretty big fan of Adam Sandler's earlier movies, up to and including (horror-of-all-horrors) Little Nicky. I was seriously jonesing for some Billy Madison the other day...

[Rett Mikhal]

I'm far too lazy to make a list of them now. I'm just going to list all the ones with planes.

Flyboys
Top Gun
Independence Day
The Final Countdown
Blue Thunder
Iron Eagle

Flyboys might be the most historically inaccurate World War I film ever made, but other than that I don't find many flaws with it. Even the romance seems to work because the actress is believable and good. Yeah there's way too many red Fokker Dr.I triplanes and they didn't have a trigger for the Lewis gun on top of the Neiuport attached to the flight stick but whatever that makes it easier to understand the complicated dogfights. I'd wager if you just made a movie of an hour and half long series of Dogfights with no plot connecting them the universe would explode from sheer awesome.

I'd also like to point out the hilarious bull of the G4 channel advertising their 4-20 stoner shows/movies all week... including during their constant reruns of cops. Bwa?

I'd also like to point out I think it's sick and disgusting to celebrate Hitler's birthday by toking up. Course I think toking up or getting drunk are in themselves sick and disgusting, but doing it on a horrible day like 4-20 just exacerbates my hatred.

[starwenn]

Supergirl
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
The Pirate Movie
Cutthroat Island
Newsies
Grease 2

Girls cartoons from the 80s. Let the guys have their Transformers and GI Joes. Give me "Strawberry Shortcake," "Rainbow Brite," and "My Little Pony."

Most musicals, to be honest, and just about anything I love that was made before the 1970s. (I'm a big old movie fan.)

[lemmy]

Listing my guilty pleasures would take forever, so I'll just leave everyone with my favorite: Disco Godfather.

[immortalwog]

Demolition Man, Hackers, and Under Siege. all great movies, in a very real sense...

[StarOpal]

I thought a love of guilty pleasure movies was a requirement around here? Prepare for some psychological insight. I've included video links to better explain...

Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam
Love! LOVE!

The Howling 7 aka The Howling: New Moon Rising (language warning)
Oh, this movie is so bad, it's... it's a thing of beauty. "Who wants to hear Pappy sing?" Indeed.

Masters of the Universe

Deperate Remedies
Red room! Red room!

'80s era Van Damme movies.

The original Prom Night, but just for this scene.

Road House

I could just list for pages and pages. I suppose calling them "guilty" pleasures isn't quite right, I own up to them with gusto! Those who know me have just come to except my love of weird, and downright terrible, movies, so I don't have to defend very often. Though I hear a lot of "Dude, you watch some really strange movies." or "You liked that?! Wow. Huh."

I think of it like, sometimes you just really crave something wonderfully bad, and people who can't appreciate that are just missing out on a big enjoyable chunk of life.

[sarahbot]

Anastasia, the animated one. Yes, it's terribly animated. Yes, Anastasia has about 18 different actors voicing her. Yes, it takes everything you thought you knew about Russian history and punches it in the throat. Yes, it shoehorns in a love story ex machina. But I don't care. I could watch that movie until the cows come home.

[TheLuckyOne]

Apr 20, 2008 10:08:57 GMT -5 Rett Mikhal said:

I'd also like to point out I think it's sick and disgusting to celebrate Hitler's birthday by toking up. Course I think toking up or getting drunk are in themselves sick and disgusting, but doing it on a horrible day like 4-20 just exacerbates my hatred.

We're not going to derail the thread with this, but allow me to point out in response that I doubt most stoners make with an effusive "This one's for you, Jew-hating German dude!" before lighting their bongs. And if I choose to have a beer on March 10, I generally don't first hoist it in the air and exult, "Cheers, Osama Bin Laden! Happy birthday!"

Why? Because, interestingly, it's just a day. And in fact, every day of the year has seen the birth of a fascistic dictator or mass murderer or serial killer at some point in recorded history. Does that mean we should never drink or get high? (Don't answer, it's rhetorical.) For that matter, vilifying the day of Hitler's birth doesn't even make any sense -- he wasn't evil then, he could have grown up to be a farmer or a painter. It'd make more sense not drinking/toking up on the anniversary of the day he invaded Poland, or Kristalnacht, or the opening of the first concentration camp.

So, really. It's your opinion and you're welcome to it, but I don't know that you'll find many willing to treat an entire day as "horrible" for the rest of time just because one incredibly evil person was born on it. Frankly, the best way to refute everything Hitler stood for is to engage in frivolity, spontaneity, and non-conformity. And having just come from the home of my Jewish in-laws, where everyone was in high spirits and no one was mourning or angry, I know they'd agree with me.

-D

[CheshireKat]

I don't really have any "guilty" pleasures as that would denote that my preferences are in any way affected by the opinions or disapproving looks of other people, but if you're talking about movies that I have unabashed love for despite the fact that no one seems to agree with me, I'll go ahead and go wiiiith:

Pirates 2&3, honestly critics, do you have something against fun?
Spiderman 3, Yes they tried to do a lot, and you know what? I think they pulled it off.
Legend: Yeah it's horrible, but in a fun way.
Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal: points for trying, Jim Henson. Points for trying.
and yes...The Star Wars prequels. You all whine, but you know you're watching them all the way through on Spike right now.

and I thought I'd throw a monkey wrench into the works and state my pick for movie that should be a guilty pleasure:

Blade Runner

There, I said it. I know geeks the world over are going to flame the hell out of me with endless messages about how brilliant it is and how dare I knock Ridley Scott and what not, but my idea of a brilliant movie is one that keeps me awake all the way through. Seriously, how do you do it? Lady in the Water moved at a faster pace!

[queenhelen]

Star Gate
The Fifth Element
The Mummy
George of the Jungle

"George" is the one I'm most embarassed about, but I can't help liking it. It's cute, it never takes itself seriously, and I really like Brendan Fraser. There are so many big heads in Hollywood, the unassuming ones (like Brandan Fraser, Alan Tudyk) really stand out. He'd make a great big brother.

[StarOpal]

Apr 21, 2008 10:19:57 GMT -5 queenhelen said:

Star Gate
The Fifth Element
The Mummy

These are considered guilty pleasures? Heck, I watched The Mummy just last night. See? People don't even comment anymore, so I don't know these things.

[Head Mutant]

Apr 20, 2008 17:42:15 GMT -5 TheLuckyOne said:

So, really. It's your opinion and you're welcome to it, but I don't know that you'll find many willing to treat an entire day as "horrible" for the rest of time just because one incredibly evil person was born on it.

Drew's just upset he missed out on this week's Mussolini Monday (Jell-o shots!)

[ironica728]

Oh my goodness, guilty pleasures...
Mortal Kombat. Plus Mortal Kombat 2: Annihilation.

If those don't count, I don't know what does.